Presentations in Sakai

Contributor(s): David Germano

The Basics

The Presentation tool allows you to present a set of slides to many viewers. As the presenter, you can move forward and backward through the slides, and viewers (using the Join mode) will follow each move within a few seconds. Thus you can use it show a presentation within a room via a projector, or, more interestingly, you can use to do an online presentation to viewers who are only connected to you via the Internet.

Viewers also can switch to View mode, and navigate through the slides independently of the presenter. Viewers can switch back to Join mode to rejoin the show at any time.

How to Do It

Presentation folders: To create a presentation, upload a series of files into the Resource tool under the folder Presentations (case does matter). Within the Presentations folder, each sub-folder will contain a separate presentation. So an example presentation might be a series of JPEG images in the folder Presentations/week-01. Slide order is determined by a sort of the file names or file titles (if provided).

Join mode: This mode allows viewers to follow along as you, the presenter, move forward and backward through your presentation.